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PURYEAR |
My line:
Samuel Puryear (1694-1748) m. Elizabeth
Peter Puryear (b. ca. 1720) m. Susannah Major (d. 1801)
John Puryear (b. ca. 1760) m. ??? Hubbard
Thomas Puryear (d. 1838) m. Elizabeth Marshall (1790-1852)
Mary Puryear (1829-1856) m. Thomas L. Jones (1822-1895)
Elizabeth Jones (1855-1925) m. John N. Cole (1852-1915)
Lucy Cole (1882-1958) m. Plato Tracy Durham
(1873-1930)
Lucy Cole Durham (b. 1925) m. Roscoe Lee
Strickland, Jr. (1917-1997)
Roscoe Lee Strickland III (b. 1952)
--yours truly
Puryear is an old French name
that had many spellings, but the most common was Prieur. The
earliest bearers of the name in this country were Huguenots, Protestants who
left France because of religious persecution.
According to Hotten, "Ship Hopewell sailed from London in April, 1635. Included
among it's passengers, 27 in number, are the names of Alice, 37 years, wife of
William Purryer, Mary, Sarra, and Kathren, ages 7, 5, and 18 months, children of
William Purryer." The earliest Puryear mentioned by Grace Hollis Puryear, in her
book,"Puryear, Kin and Kin to Kin," was Robert Puryear. He was already
established in Warwick County, Virginia in 1647.
Samuel and Elizabeth Puryear are the earliest to whom our Puryear line has been
traced. Their direct descendants located in Virginia and North Carolina. Seven
men and one woman are listed as being the first generation, but they may not all
have been in the same family. There is documentary proof that some were, and
various records link others.
Samuel Puryear's will was proved March 2, 1748, in Warwick County, Virginia, and
his sons Samuel and John were named as executors of his estate. Son Robert was
the executor of their mother's estate in 1755 in Warwick County.
Peter Puryear (b. ca. 1720)
was probably married in Warwick County or Lunenberg County, Virginia. His family
settled in Henrico County where, in 1747, he was appointed Processioner of Lands
for the 2nd District of Henrico Parish. Some of his brothers served in that
capacity in some of the other districts. Peter and Susannah raised their family
in Henrico County, and although Peter acquired a great deal of land in Lunenberg
County, they never moved there.
Peter Puryear's will was written in Henrico County, but evidently it was among
the Henrico County records destroyed by the enemy during the Revolutionary War
and not re-recorded. There is a record of the division of slaves among his wife
and children.
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